ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Evening Star, Issue 7406, 29 December 1887, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A hoy named Quick, who was riding on the tail-end of a cart at Timaru on Saturday, fell in front of an express. The driver made frantic efforts to stop, but could not do so until the wheels had passed over the boy’s chest, crushing him terribly. At last accounts the boy was in a most precarious state. His mother was within two yards of the scene at the time. The Tapahui paper records the death of a boy, eight years of age, son of Mr D. T. Montgomery, of Kelso. The youngster was bathing in the Pomahaka River, and, getting out of his depth, was drowned, notwithstanding a gallant attempt at rescue by a lad named Charles Lay. - - The Blenheim police have received word that the body of a man whose name is unknown was found on Wednesday on the bank of the Wairau River, near Tophouse. Deceased had evidently been going in search of work from one station to another. This is the third accident in the Wairau River within a few months. _ One or two bridges .are badly, needed at different places, as the Wairan,,; goes through a large tract of country. ■ '■